The Beatles–the world’s most famous rock and roll band–travel from their home town of Liverpool to London to perform in a television broadcast. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Three Stops to Murder (1953) Terence Fisher, Tom Conway, Mila Parély, Naomi Chance, Crime, Drama
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered. Read More »
Roman Scandals (1933) Frank Tuttle, Eddie Cantor, The Goldwyn Girls, Ruth Etting, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. Read More »
Love on the Ground (1984) Jacques Rivette, Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
One of Jacques Rivette’s most accessible films – a reflection on theatre and life, mixed with playful references to haunted-house thrillers and mysterious-mansion whodunnits. Read More »
Being Two Isnt Easy (1962) Kon Ichikawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Hiroo Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi, Comedy, Drama
The trials, tribulations, and joys of raising a child. The film follows the everyday events of a family with one boy Read More »
The Future (2013) Luis López Carrasco, Lucía Alonso, Rafael Ayuso Mateo, Marta Bassols, Drama, History
A group of young people dance and drink at a house. The atmosphere is festive and cheerful. Socialist victory in the general elections of 1982 seems recent. Read More »
Wuthering Heights (1985) Jacques Rivette, Fabienne Babe, Lucas Belvaux, Sandra Montaigu, Drama, Romance, Mystery
Acclaimed French director Jacques Rivette’s version of Emily Bronte’s classic novel. Read More »
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape (1971) Ken Takakura, Action
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator. Read More »
The Charge at Feather River (1953) Gordon Douglas, Guy Madison, Vera Miles, Frank Lovejoy, Western
The story involves an overland journey through hostile Cheyenne territory to rescue two white women captured by the Cheyenne. Read More »
Burst City (1982) Gakuryû Ishii, Michirô Endô, Shigeru Izumiya, Takanori Jinnai, Action, Music, Sci-Fi
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living. Read More »
The Barbarian (1933) Sam Wood, Ramon Novarro, Myrna Loy, Reginald Denny, Adventure, Drama, Romance
A racy story of Myrna, who arrives in Cairo to meet her fiance. She attracts the attention of Ramon, a conniving Arab guide who enchants rich women tourists in order to take advantage of them. She falls under his spell, and he turns out to be more than he seems.
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Lorna Doone (1951) Phil Karlson, Barbara Hale, Richard Greene, Carl Benton Reid, Drama, Romance
Set in 17th century Scotland, a young woman falls in love with a humble villager whose community suffers under the rule of her despotic landowning family. Read More »
The Spiders Stratagem (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci, Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini, Drama, Mystery
Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. Read More »
Tunes of Glory (1960) Ronald Neame, Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York, Drama
Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Read More »
The Albanian (2010) Johannes Naber, Nik Xhelilaj, Amos Muji Zaharia, Çun Lajçi, Drama
Handsome Albanian villager Arben wants to marry Etleva, daughter of a neighboring clan, but her father has promised her to another man who is offering a 10,000 Euros bride price. Read More »